Advice across the board is that nuclear power plants take a really long time and cost a lot of money. They almost always go far over time and budget. And they’re expensive to operate. Why is that so?
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the largest benefactor is safety. nuclear powerplants nowadays are extremely safe because many precautions have been taken.
the problem is, is that those precautions cost buckets of money and large amounts of time to build/setup exactly for the reason that they need to be implemented correctly and safely.
nuclear power plant can be boiled down to a huge investement that costs practically nothing (for a government that is) for the rest of it’s lifespan after the initial first fase
It’s worth it in the long run when the plant is up and running because it is really inexpensive to operate/maintain a running nuclear power plant and they are able to be used for an (objectively) long time.
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